Saturday, October 9, 2004
Debate No. 2 and Some Elements of Truth...
Kerry won the debate on truth: Bush, as usual, had to resort to distortions to try and make his "points." As for the 'popularity contest' nonsense -- Leadership means giving rational, honest reasons for actions that you expect people to support so that they wholeheartedly support your actions and...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Dwight Eisenhower's son speaks
Why I Will Vote for John Kerry for President By John Eisenhower The Manchester Union Leader Tuesday 28 September 2004 The Presidential election to be held this coming Nov. 2 will be one of extraordinary importance to the future of our nation. The outcome will determine whether this country will...
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Sunday, September 26, 2004
WMDs and former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Come Clean: Gorbachev Launches Global Campaign Against WMD By Sanjay Suri Inter-Press Services Friday 24 September 2004 LONDON - Mikhail Gorbachev is an ex-president going after weapons of mass destruction. But not the way U.S. President George Bush thought he was going after them in Iraq. That war...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
"The Ultimate Taboo" - What do you think?
Why the West is Losing By Eric Margolis The Toronto Sun Sunday 12 September 2004 Three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, America's politicians and media continue to gravely deceive the public about the so-called war on terrorism. Now the definitive book on terrorism has appeared that should...
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Thursday, September 9, 2004
"Coon Hunters for Christ"
We read the large decal in stunned silence hardly able to believe our eyes, as the pickup truck passed us on Interstate 35 heading north toward Dallas, Texas. At first I thought it was an unusual hunting group - really-- and then I saw the burning cross icon. "For Christ," it said. If there is a...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Iraqi Vet Speaks about War
W.Va. Reserve leader denounces Iraq war Lew G Tyree commanded the state’s largest Army Reserve unit, based at Cross Lanes, and led his soldiers on harrowing duty in Iraq and Kuwait, hauling ammunition to the front lines. He is now staff attorney for the West Virginia Housing Development Fund, and...
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Monday, September 6, 2004
A soldier's request to his family
To Whom it May Concern, I found out that my brother, Sergeant Ryan M. Campbell, was dead during a graduate seminar at Emory University on April 29, 2004. Immediately after a uniformed officer knocked at my mother's door to deliver the message that broke her heart, she called me on my cell phone. She...
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Friday, September 3, 2004
The GOP Put on a Good Show. They know how to do that.....
However: I'm not surprised that the GOP came off as aggressively defensive this week. In spite of having control over the entire Congress, the Executive Branch, the Supreme Court and the Pentagon, they knew they had made so many mistakes and are so vulnerable in the execution of their policies that...
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Sunday, August 29, 2004
"I'm hoping that Kerry's a seven on a scale of 10,
but I'm afraid maybe he's just a five," says Keven Phillips (a life-long strategist for the Republicans) who quit the GOP to become an Independent. "But Kerry's running against a zero. So my choice is clear." This is reported today (8/28/04) in the Washington Post., pg. D6. How does Phillips arrive...
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Saturday, August 28, 2004
The Price of Free Speech --
This from a Conservative I agree with on this issue: The FBI's Pre-emptive Interrogations of "Possible" Demonstrators: Chilling Political Speech By Bob Barr FindLaw Wednesday 25 August 2004 The FBI, no longer content with working to maintain order at political events, is now preemptively identifying...
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